Front Desk Figurative Language

Match the following

• Metaphor

• "I felt my tongue in my mouth, like a limp lizard."

• Simile/

  Alliteration

• After my mother got fired from the restaurant, she got very serious about job hunting. She called it getting back on her horse."

• Hyperbole

• "Buzz Buzz Buzz. Power coursed through my fingertips."

• Onomatopoeia

• "Everybody knows museum food is fifty thousand times more expensive than outside food."

• Idiom

• "The man has coal for a heart."

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Match the following

• Idiom

• "My stomach betrayed me and growled loudly."

• Hyperbole

• "You can't pick your own room. This isn't a salad bar!"

• Metaphor

• "The murky water spilled onto the ground like a tidal wave."

• Personification

• "As I walked, I gave the butterflies in my stomach the usual pep talk."

• Simile

• "But man, what a burger. It was a mile high with real bacon and mayonnaise and pickles!"

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Name the type of figurative language used in this sentence:

"You are my special penny, Mia"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Name the type of figurative language used in this sentence:

"Principal Evans said, leading us toward the gymnasium in her clickety-clackety black pumps."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Name the two types of figurative language used in this sentence:

"Her words sat on my shoulders, heavy as rocks."

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Name the type of figurative language used in this sentence:

"No amount of begging or promising to do the dishes for the next gazillion years would change the owner's mind."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Name the three types of figurative language used in this sentence:

"We jumped in the tub together, the water sloshing and splashing as the wet towels tickled our toes."

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Name the type of figurative language used in this sentence:

"He was willing to go literally anywhere, even into the belly of a dumpster."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Name the two types of figurative language used in this sentence:

"I pictured him sitting on top of a mountain of trash, flies buzzing around him, feet tapping on corncobs and banana peels as he tucked into his burger."

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.4.5